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Warehouse Safety: OSHA Guidelines, Statistics & 10 Top Tips

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Get 15 tips for improving warehouse safety. 15 Warehouse Safety Tips. For example, an injured employee may have to miss work, spills and debris need to be cleaned up, and damaged equipment needs to be repaired. For example, OSHA issued 454 citations worth over $1.8 15 Warehouse Safety Tips. Let’s dive in!

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Energy and Labour Costs: 2 Top Warehousing Challenges in 2023

Logistics Bureau

We hope the tips and ideas in this article will help you make inroads into warehouse energy and labour cost reduction. For example, could some areas of your warehouse be adapted via racking optimisation to store higher inventory volumes? LMS applications can help with real-time workforce tracking, performance analysis, and scheduling.

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How to Get Your Forklift License: The Ultimate Guide [New in 2020]

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Bonus Tip : The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits anyone under 18 years old from operating forklifts in non-agricultural environments. This portion of training must consist of “demonstrations performed by the trainer and practical exercises performed by the trainee” [OSHA standard 1910.178(l)(2)(ii) ]. Certification by your employer.

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Warehouse Product Slotting: The Ultimate Guide

Logistics Bureau

Slotting a warehouse product is the same, for example, as placing your umbrella close to your front door at home, so it’s easy to pick it up and run when it’s raining, and you’re late for work. It also stands to reason that when you undertake a slotting exercise, you should think about it from the perspective of these activities.

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Omnichannel Retail and the Cost to Serve Online Customers

Logistics Bureau

The tips in this article will help you know how to identify the customers, products, and processes that might be inflating your cost to serve (CTS) unnecessarily. For example: Compared to selling a product in-store, the cost to deliver that same item as a small parcel can be several times higher. Identifying Cost Elements and Drivers.

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How manufacturers and distributors can mitigate disruption in the global supply chain

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For example, one of the main problems with Asian-US trade is that all container ship deliveries are now routed to the West Coast, even though the bulk of America’s manufacturers are based on the East Coast. This is to avoid more costly routes such as the Panama Canal or taking the long haul around the tip of Africa or South America.

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11 Golden Rules for Meaningful Supply Chain KPIs

Logistics Bureau

In an attempt to help you keep your supply chain organisation from analysis paralysis, metric manipulation, or measurement misnomers, I decided to use this post to share nine important guidelines, or golden rules, for benchmarking your business and monitoring performance using meaningful supply chain KPIs.